Light Front Theory Of Nuclear Matter
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
A relativistic light front formulation of nuclear dynamics is applied to infinite nuclear matter. A hadronic meson-baryon Lagrangian, consistent with chiral symmetry, leads to a nuclear eigenvalue problem which is solved, including nucleon-nucleon (NN) correlations, in the one-boson-exchange approximation for the NN potential. The nuclear matter saturation properties are reasonably well reproduced, with a compression modulus of 180 MeV. We find that there are about 0.05 excess pions per nucleon.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9811050,
title = {Light Front Theory Of Nuclear Matter},
author = {G. A. Miller and R. Machleidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9811050},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, Revtex, one figure; version resubmitted to Phys. Lett. B